Roland Garros Thursday Results and 5/30 Order of Play

Roland Garros Thursday Results and 5/30 Order of Play

It was a good day at the French Open today, almost all the matches were completed and the rain anly bodered for a little while.
Three singles matches, including Maria Sharapova's, and five doubles matches were posponed for tomorrow because of darkness.

Gisela Dulko finished her match today but she was not able to close it. Cornet defeated Dulko in 3 sets.

Jelena Jankovic, 3rd seed, advanced to the next round but she had to battler a lot in the second set and she had an injury on her arm but it looks like it's nothing too serious.
Venus Williams also was a winner on day 4, she defeated qualifier Salima Sfar in 2 sets.

Svetlana Kuznetsova and fellow russian Elena Dementieva won their matches in 2 sets as well.

Anna Chakvetadze in the other hand was among the losers, she failed to Kaia Kanepi in 2 close sets. Other seeded players that didn't make it inot the third round are Maria Kirilenko and Amelie Mauresmo.

Check out all the scores from Roland Garros and the order of play for Friday.


Thursday, May 29, 2008

Singles - Second Round
(3) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) d. Marina Erakovic (NZL) 62 76(5)
(4) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d. Vania King (USA) 64 62
Kaia Kanepi (EST) d. (6) Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 64 76(2)
(7) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Marta Domachowska (POL) 61 64
(8) Venus Williams (USA) d. (Q) Selima Sfar (TUN) 62 64
(12) Agnes Szavay (HUN) d. Sabine Lisicki (GER) 76(3) 63
(13) Dinara Safina (RUS) d. (Q) Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 60 61
(16) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 60 60
(18) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. Sanda Mamic (CRO) 63 60
(19) Alizé Cornet (FRA) d. Gisela Dulko (ARG) 60 46 64
(Q) Zheng Jie (CHN) d. (21) Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 46 63 62
(Q) Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) d. (22) Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) 63 64
(26) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) d. (Q) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 36 61 61
(27) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 60 75
(28) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d. Milagros Sequera (VEN) 63 60
(29) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) d. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 46 63 61
Olga Govortsova (BLR) d. (31) Ai Sugiyama (JPN) 60 75
(32) Karin Knapp (ITA) d. (WC) Olivia Sanchez (FRA) 62 76(4)
Casey Dellacqua (AUS) d. Nathalie Dechy (FRA) 64 62
Petra Cetkovska (CZE) d. Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) 75 63
Petra Kvitova (CZE) d. (WC) Samantha Stosur (AUS) 62 61
Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) d. Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 16 61 63
(Q) Iveta Benesova (CZE) d. Peng Shuai (CHN) 64 63

Suspended or postponed due to darkness
(1) Maria Sharapova (RUS) leads (Q) Bethanie Mattek (USA) 62 23
(11) Vera Zvonareva (RUS) vs. Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (FRA)
(25) Nadia Petrova (RUS) leads Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 63 42

Doubles - First Round
(1) Black/Huber (ZIM/USA) d. Jans/Jugic-Salkic (POL/BIH) 63 64
(11) Peng/T.Sun (CHN/CHN) d. Garbin/Vinci (ITA/ITA) 62 67(4) 60
(15) Koryttseva/Uhlirova (UKR/CZE) d. Olaru/Parra Santonja (ROU/ESP) 63 62
Loit/Parmentier (FRA/FRA) d. Erakovic/Krajicek (NZL/NED) 64 76(3)
Bacsinszky/Cornet (SUI/FRA) d. Navratilova/Paszek (CZE/AUT) 64 20 ret.
(WC) Lefèvre/Védy (FRA/FRA) d. Kustova/Zakopalova (BLR/CZE) 61 64
(WC) Coin/Huck (FRA/FRA) d. (WC) Hesse/Mladenovic (FRA/FRA) 61 63

Suspended or postponed due to darkness
(7) Bondarenko/Bondarenko (UKR/UKR) vs. Cibulkova/Hrdinova (SVK/CZE)
(14) Dechy/Likhovtseva (FRA/RUS) vs. Razzano/Wickmayer (FRA/BEL)
Hradecka/Voracova (CZE/CZE) vs. Bammer/Lisicki (AUT/GER)
Ji/S.Sun (CHN/CHN) vs. Domachowska/Rosolska (POL/POL)
(WC) Fedossova/Pichet (FRA/FRA) leads Harkleroad/Voskoboeva (USA/RUS) 64 33


Roland Garros Friday May 30th Order of Play
CHATRIER

11:00 Start 1 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)[30]v. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)[2]

2 Women's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Maria Sharapova (RUS)[1]v. Bethanie Mattek (USA)To Finish 6-2 2-3

followed by
3 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Simone Bolelli (ITA)v. Michael Llodra (FRA)

4 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Eduardo Schwank (ARG)v. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)[18]


5 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Venus Williams (USA)[8]v. Flavia Pennetta (ITA)[26]



LENGLEN

11:00 Start 1 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Serena Williams (USA)[5]v. Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)[27]

followed by
2 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)[26]v. Rafael Nadal (ESP)[2]

3 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)[14]v. Alize Cornet (FRA)[19]

4 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Wayne Odesnik (USA)v. Novak Djokovic (SRB)[3]




Court 1

11:00 Start 1 Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Alejandro Falla (COL)v. Julien Benneteau (FRA)

followed by
2 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Emilie Loit (FRA)v. Patty Schnyder (SUI)[10]

3 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Jeremy Chardy (FRA)v. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)[30]

4 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)[28]v. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)[3]



Court 2

11:00 Start 1 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Iveta Benesova (CZE)v. Petra Cetkovs.a (CZE)

followed by
2 Women's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[11]v. Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (FRA)

3 Men's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)[15]v. Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[22]

4 Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)v. Casey Dellacqua (AUS)



Court 4

12:30 Start 1 Women's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Nadia Petrova (RUS)[25]v. Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)to Finish 6-3 4-2

followed by
2 Mixed Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Camille Pin (FRA)/Gilles Simon (FRA)v. Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/Eric Butorac (USA)

3 Women's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea (ROU)/Aravane Rezai (FRA)v. Yaroslava Shvedova (RUS)/Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)

4 Mixed Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Tiantian Sun (CHN)/Max Mirnyi (BLR)v. Alize Cornet (FRA)/Marcelo Melo (BRA)



AP Photo/Michel Spingler